Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary - cutting edge

Note: The spelling 'cutting-edge' is used for meaning 3. 1. If you are at the cutting edge of a particular field of activity, you are involved in its most important or most exciting developments. This shipyard is at the cutting edge of world shipbuilding technology. = forefront N-SING: usu at/on the N of n 2. If someone or something gives you a cutting edge, they give you an advantage over your competitors. If Pearce had been fit, we would have won. We missed the cutting edge he would have given us. N-SING 3. Cutting-edge techniques or equipment are the most advanced that there are in a particular field. What we are planning is cutting-edge technology never seen in Australia before... ADJ: usu ADJ n